Scientific Evidence

I met a man today who said he wasn’t interested in religious things as he was more of a scientific mind.

Well I put it to you that God is the Supreme Scientific Mind in the Universe; For the purpose of discussion let us keep it simple and look at something as uncomplicated as this Nectarine flower which I photographed on a tree in my daughter’s back yard, and one of the Nectarine fruit. Simple it may be,

(compared to things like the Human body), but for all that, there is not a Scientist in the entire world who can replicate any item illustrated here even with all the equipment in their laboratories.

For starters we have to have a Nectarine tree (and where it came from I would like to know, if it wasn’t created by God as Genesis 1 tells us it was). Now that tree only has a life span of a few years (say 20 years) so in that time the first Nectarine tree had to design and manufacture a

seed like you see here so it could replace itself, and that is a neat trick for a brainless tree to perform if it wasn’t “programmed” by God to “Produce after its kind”.  Because if it didn’t come up with a perfect seed in that time that would have been the end of the species. Let us look at what really happens to produce a seed like that:  Firstly the tree has to suck out of the dirt the necessary ingredients to make the flower (and this can’t be “hit and miss” either) it must know exactly what it intends to produce, which is simple if God programmed it, but impossible if it isn’t programmed. It has then to form a tiny unfertilised seed, surround it with lovely petals, nectar, and pollen, to attract the bees. This of course begs the question “how does a brainless tree know there are bees and that it needs to attract them?” (Goodness we get into trouble if we leave God out of the picture, don’t we?)  

When ripe (which means when the fertilised seed is completely formed and encased in a solid wooden container to protect it) the skin of the fruit becomes very attractive to people, animals, and birds and as it covers a tasty flesh they eat it, and then drop the seed on the ground as the tree “wants” them to do in order that another tree can grow. So either the “brainless” tree is very clever (which it isn’t) or the designer certainly knew what He was doing! (which is obvious)  He also made the nectarine skin smooth so there would be no mix up with the peach which looks similar but is hairy.

Furthermore this Design Engineer, who is our incredible God, created thousands of other different fruits and vegetables in different shapes, for easy identification, and also “colour coded” them all to make it easy for the Grower, the Supermarket, and the Shopper to select what they want. Just imagine if they were all the same colour and size what a hopeless mess shopping would be! So now if you want a Carrot you pick up a Carrot not a Parsnip, if you want a Nectarine you pick up a Nectarine not a Peach. Simple for us, but imagine the planning that was necessary to arrange for all that to happen.

Whilst we are thinking about this incredible Design Engineer God of ours, spend some time, (I suggest the rest of your life) trying to understand how He designed a different finger print and “barcode”, which we call D.N.A, for each of the billions of people in the world and arranged for each one to look different and have a different voice for ease of recognition.  Can you imagine anything more Scientific than all that? And to complete the arrangement He has promised that if we “Trust in the Lord with all our heart...He shall direct our paths”!  (Proverbs 3: 5&6) How good is that?      Best wishes,  Tom.